 |  |  THE NEW ERA BEGINS
Knicks 114, Bucks 108 - The crowd was chanting "MELO" throughout the game and the Garden was electric for Carmelo Anthony's debut. He scored 11 of his team-high 27 points in the final quarter to lift New York to its 3rd straight win. The Knicks snap a 4-game losing streak to the Bucks. Chauncey Billups also had a big debut with 21 points and 8 assists, hitting all 12 of his free throw attempts. The 27 points by Anthony are tied for the 3rd-most ever in a Knicks debut.
|  |  LAKERS FINISH BLAZERS OFF IN OT
Lakers 106, Trail Blazers 101 F/OT - Kobe Bryant led all scorers with 37 points (14-31 FG) grabbed 9 rebounds and handed out 6 assists as the Lakers snap the Trail Blazers six-game win streak. It's Bryant's 18th 30-point game this season, second most in the league. Ron Artest scored a season-high 24 points (5-6 3-pt FG). Pau Gasol posted a double-double with 18 points and 14 rebounds. The Lakers are now 10-2 in the second game of back-to-backs this season. Portland has lost three of its last four games vs the Lakers and two straight in Portland after winning the previous nine there against L.A.
| |  ONE AND DONE
WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, 1st Round - Tiger Woods, the top seed in the Sam Snead Bracket, lost on the first extra hole to 16 seed Thomas Bjorn on Day 1 of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship. This is only the second time in 11 starts that Woods lost in the first round at this event. (In 2002, he lost to Peter O'Malley.) Woods now has gone 16 PGA TOUR events since his last win, matching the longest drought of his career. In the second round, Bjorn will face 2-time champion Geoff Ogilvy. Woods and Ogilvy are the only players who have won this event more than once.
| |  CAN WE GET A 2nd OPINION?
Wainwright Has "Significant Injury" To Throwing Elbow - Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright suffered a "significant injury" to his throwing elbow in a bullpen session on Monday according to GM John Mozeliak. Wainwright is returning to St. Louis to have the elbow examined by team doctors. Wainwright has a $21-million, two-year option at the end of this season that was triggered by his finish in the Cy Young voting. To claim the option he must finish the year healthy and not on the team's disabled list.
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| Providence's Marshon Brooks scored a Big East record 52 points in a 94-93 home loss to No. 9 Notre Dame. The previous Big East record was held by former Friar Eric Murdock, who scored 48 against Pittsburgh on Jan. 23, 1991. Brooks' 52 points equal the most scored by a Division I player this season.
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| Grizzlies 104, Timberwolves 95 - In a loss to the Grizzlies, Kevin Love recorded his 44th consecutive double-double (15 points, 11 rebounds). That ties Moses Malone (in 1982-83) for the second-longest, single-season double-double streak since the merger in 1976-77. Malone owns the single-season record with 50 straight double-doubles, which he set during the 1978-79 season.
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